Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:30:17 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: deischen@freebsd.org Cc: yar@comp.chem.msu.su, kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Symbol versioning conventions Message-ID: <20070826.113017.-126689373.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0708261240070.23191@sea.ntplx.net> References: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0708251703550.19091@sea.ntplx.net> <20070826073535.GD21352@comp.chem.msu.su> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0708261240070.23191@sea.ntplx.net>
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Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> writes:
: On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
: >
: > But, anyway, there are at least three people in the project who
: > misundertood the intended role of symbol versioning. Besides yours
: > truly, a humble developer, there are a core team member and a release
: > engineer among them. This may be a sign that some decisions regarding
: > symbol versioning, which is a rather central feature for developers
: > and code contributors, haven't had enough exposure. Perhaps we've
: > just missed some important discussions on the lists, but symbol
: > versioning is a long-term feature and as such it deserves a document
: > describing in detail how to use it in our project.
:
: I've think I've stated in replies to commit mail that symbol versioning
: isn't meant as a crutch to aid -current developers, but that is neither
: written down or documented and was probably over a year ago.
You never answered my point: The release engineer gets to decide when
the ABI is frozen. Maybe it already is and this use isn't a crutch.
Warner
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